Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3.7.6 (15.6)

Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:44–46

ἑτέρῳ δὲ τόπῳ ἁρμόσουσιν πολὺ ἐλάττονι, καὶ τοῦτο ὅταν βασανισθῶσιν καὶ ἐκπληρώσωσιν τὰς ἡμέρας τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτῶν. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μετατεθήσονται, ὅτι μετέλαβον τοῦ ῥήματος τοῦ δικαίου. καὶ τότε αὐτοῖς συμβήσεται μετατεθῆναι ἐκ τῶν βασάνων αὐτῶν, διὰ τὰ ἔργα ἃ εἰργάσαντο πονηρά. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀναβῇ ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῶν, οὐ σώζονται διὰ τὴν σκληροκαρδίαν αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

But they will fit into another, much lesser place, and that only when they have been tormented and have fulfilled the days of their sins. And they will be moved for this reason, that they shared in the righteous word. And then it will happen that they are moved out of their torments, because of the evil deeds they have done. But if it does not enter their heart, they are not saved, because of their hardness of heart.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 25:44–46 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 6–71 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The sense of this sentence is uncertain; it appears to describe a lesser place of salvation after a period of suffering for sin.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): βασανισθωσιν → βασανισθῶσιν.

Cite this passage

Herm. Vis. 3.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/7/6/).

Plain text

Herm. Vis. 3.7.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-vis/3/7/6/).